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The Love Of God (Declarations). 1 John 4:7-21. The Declarations God’s Love. John 3:16 Declares the DEGREE of God’s love. John 3:16 declares the OBJECTS of God’s love. 1 John 1:3, 6-9 Declares the CONSTANCY of God’s love.
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The Love Of God(Declarations) 1 John 4:7-21
The Declarations God’s Love John 3:16 Declares the DEGREE of God’s love. John 3:16 declares the OBJECTS of God’s love. 1 John 1:3, 6-9 Declares the CONSTANCY of God’s love. 1 John 4:9-10 Declares the DESIGN of God’s love ... Life. cf. John 20:30-31 1 John 3:1-3 Declares the REWARD of God’s love.
Our Love For God (Motive) 1 John 5:1-4
Motive Of Our Love For God Gratitude. 1 John 4:9-10 • God first loved you. 1 John 4:19 • God sent His Son to die for your sins. 1 John 4:10 • God created you. Ps. 139:13-14 • God sustains your life. Mt. 6:25-34 • God gives you escape from sinful temptations. 1 Cor. 10:13 • God has prepared eternal life for those who love Him. 1 John 5:11-12
Our Love For God (Obligations) 1 John 5:1-4
Love Has Its Blessings And Rewards. It Also Has Its Obligations And Responsibilities. • EXAMPLES: • Men and women want the blessings and rewards of marriage, but do not want its obligations and responsibilities. • Some want the blessings and rewards of a home without assuming the obligations and responsibilities of husbands and wives. • Some profess to love God, yet do not want to assume the obligations of loving God !!!
Eph 5:25 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it ASV
Titus 2:1-5 “that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, (to be) sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
Obligations Of Love We must live for Christ. 1 John 3:6-12; 2 Cor. 5:14-15; Gal. 2:20 • “No longer I that live…” Paul became insensible to the things of this busy world. • There was an intimate union between Christ and His people. 1 John 2:2-3
Obligations Of Love We must live for Christ. • Jews on Pentecost. Acts 2 • Thessalonians turned from idols. 1 Thess. 1:9 • Ephesians burned their books. Acts 19:19 • Jailor “washed their stripes.” Acts 16:33 • Corinthians turned from former practices.1 Cor. 6:9-11 4
Obligations Of Love We must love one another. 1 John 4:11; 20-21; cf. John 13:34-35 • We must love one another for God to accept our love. 1 John 4:20-21 • We are to "put on love" to bind the body of Christ together. Col. 3:14
Obligations Of Love Rom 12:10 In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another; Heb 13:1 Let love of the brethren continue. 1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren , love one another from the heart fervently
Obligations Of Love We must obey his commandments. 1 John 2:3ff; John 14:15, 21-24 • Loving one another is an essential part of obeying the truth. 1 John 4:20-21 • 1 Pet. 1:22 “Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently.”
Review Obligations Of Love • What obligations must we assume if we love God? 1. We must live for Christ. 1 John 3:6-12 2. We must love one another. 1 John 4:11; 20-21 3. We must obey his commandments. 1 John 2:3-5; 5:2-3
Our Love For God (Practical Side) 1 John 2:1-6
Practical Side Of Love We Show Love! 1 John 3:16-18 Sacrifice, service & spiritual growth are only beneficial when our deeds are driven by love for: 1. God (Mt. 22:37-38; 1 John 2:3-4). 2. Our neighbors (Mt. 22:39; Luke 10:25-37). 3. Our brethren (Rom. 12:10; cf. Rom. 1:8). 4. Our families (Eph. 5:25; Tit. 2:4-5; Eph. 6:1-4). 5. Our enemies (Mt. 5:44).
1 Corinthians 13:1-8 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have (the gift of) prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed (the poor), and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8 4 Love suffereth long, (and) is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
1 Corinthians 13:1-8 6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Love never faileth…
Conclusion: • The Love Of God. • Should obligate those outside of Christ to obey the gospel. • Should obligate those “in Christ” to be faithful in service, worship and to one another. • God first loved us. 1 John 4:19 • Do you love HIM? John 14:15